Written by Matt|November 22, 2011|Comments Off on TV Channels Wherever You May Be

If youÂ tv channel regularly like me, you must have experienced that time when all the local channels are featuring shows that are not just your type or some re-runs that you may have already ed a dozen times over. This usually ends up spoiling our current craving for entertainment, but now we no longer have to bear with it because there are a handful of websites that gives us access toÂ tv channel show from channels in and out the country.

So nowadays, we could stay clear of such hassles when we want toÂ tv channel, simply by having a decent Internet connection. Equipped with one, your computer has just taken on a new role in its entertainment capabilities, by making it possible for you toÂ tv channel show online.(more…)

Written by Matt|November 21, 2011|Comments Off on Living the dream in Paris

You’re free do something really different with your life. Don’t lose your get-up-and-go.” My daughter was taking me in hand, because, at the age of 60, I’d just ended a relationship with a musician who’d turned out to be more prodigal son than partner.

Anne, my visiting British friend, chimed in: “What happened to your Paris dream? We British do it all the time.”

An ad on the internet â€“ “My London for your Paris. Wanted: a month-long flat swap” â€“ brought a response from Chloe, a photographer commissioned to document London life. She moved in with a promise to water my plants; I would look after her cat, Joe.

Written by Matt|August 3, 2011|Comments Off on DARPA looking to develop iPhone and Android apps

Sure, in the past we’ve got a hearty chuckle out of initiatives that involved Redfly terminals and Clippy variants, but the question remains: how can we get cutting-edge tech into the hands of soldiers faster? We’ve recently come across some RFIs for DARPA projects aimed at developing apps and an App Store for Android and the iPhone OS, with two in particular — Mobile Apps for the Military (DARPA-SN-10-27), and Transformative Apps (DARPA-BAA-10-41) — catching our eye. The agency is calling for apps for battlefield, humanitarian, and disaster recovery missions, including command and control, mission planning, surveillance, reconnaissance, and language translation. Of course, if you start taking commercial smartphones out to the field there’s the small matter of network coverage

Written by Matt|August 3, 2011|Comments Off on Toshiba is dropping out of Fujitsu

Fujitsu Toshiba Mobile Communications has only been in existence as Japan’s number two mobile company (behind Sharp) for a short time, but it appears even a decent earnings report wasn’t enough for Toshiba to stay in the business. While the joint venture prepares to release the au IS12T WP7 handset running Mango Fujitsu, Fujitsu is preparing to buy out Toshiba’s 19.9 percent stake and take sole ownership in 2012. Toshiba may not be the only Japanese tech giant taking a step back, as Hitachi is considering following Pioneer and exiting the TV biz stage left.

Written by Matt|August 3, 2011|Comments Off on Groupme 3.0 goes international and cross-platform

Groupme, the little group messaging service that made a bit of a splash at Google I/O, turns 3.0 today. There are some shiny new features on board, including a simpler way to exchange private messages and “Questions” for sparking conversations when you’re not sure who to talk to. But, the big news — Groupme 3.0 is now platform and nation agnostic. With the latest update, the service will be available in 90 countries and add Windows Phone 7 to its list of supported OSes, alongside iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android. Even if you’re sitting in front of your desktop you can still take part in the mass messaging fun.

Hacker collective Anonymous is preparing to launch its own social network called AnonPlus. The move comes after Google banned Anonymousâ€™s Google+ account called â€œYour Anon Newsâ€ due to a violation of its community standards.

Details about the project are scarce. Currently, AnonPlus.com is merely a splash page, containing a message that explains the groupâ€™s motives behind the project. â€œWelcome to the Revolution,â€ it says, â€œa new social network where there is no fearâ€¦of censorshipâ€¦of blackoutâ€¦nor of holding backâ€.

Already using Google+? Follow Mashableâ€™s Pete Cashmore for the latest about the platformâ€™s new features, tips and tricks as well as social media and technology updates.

If the 10 million users that still-invite-only Google+ accumulated in just two weeks werenâ€™t enough to make Facebook nervous, the latest report about the new social networkâ€™s gaming platform might. Google will take a smaller percentage of revenue away from game developers than Facebook does, reports All Things D.

Google reportedly will also, unlike Facebook, host games on its own servers â€” which could make them faster and less buggy.

Music licensing company Rumblefish has just made it easier for professional and amateur content creators to add music to their work legally by opening its API to developers and partners.

Rumblefish announced Tuesday that it has licensed 4 million songs in user-generated videos, slideshows, presentations and games.

Now, for example, an app that allows users to make home movies and post them to social networks can also give folks the option to license music for the videos for a fee. Users can browse playlists, receive soundtrack recommendations and search for and filter music via attributes (mood, instrument, tempo, etc.).

Developers have already flocked to Evernoteâ€™s note-taking platform in droves to provide its 11 million members with additional utility. Now, six new application makers will vie for the crown of most inventive Evernote application or integration and compete for $100,000 in prizes.

The six finalists, being revealed Tuesday, are Colorstache, MyWorld, Notablemeals, Sniptastic, Touchanote and Zendone. Community members are being encouraged to vote for their favorites.

The finalists range from the practical to the fantastical. Zendone and Colorstache are more sensible in nature, for instance. Zendone focuses on applying a â€œGetting Things Doneâ€ methodology to notes, while Colorstache lets Evernote users browse and search for notes by Color.

The +1 button is about to get a whole lot faster, thanks to an update Google rolled out on Tuesday.

â€œWeâ€™ve begun to roll out out a set of changes that will make the button render up to 3x faster on your site,â€ software engineer David Byttow said in a blog post. â€œNo action is required on your part, so just sit back, relax, and watch as the button loads more quickly than before.â€

In addition to the speed boost, Google also introduced new code that speeds up the +1 button via an asynchronous code snippet.

Adobe released a public preview of Adobe Edge, its new web motion and interaction design tool, on Monday.

Edge enables users to create animated content using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript â€” not Flash. Itâ€™s the first professional-grade HTML5 editing tool on the market and is currently available for free, as the company is looking for feedback from developers.

Interestingly enough, Adobe Edge shares the name with Adobeâ€™s free newsletter, which is bound to create some confusion among users.

Wow! I am finally home. I uploaded beginner event 10 for the 2011 Scripting Games, and now I will tell you my impressions. I will admit I am exhausted. The Scripting Guy and I were at the PowerShell Deep Dive in Las Vegas for the last several days, and it was really cool. But it was nearly too much fun. Every night we were up until the wee hours of the morning talking about Windows PowerShell with various Microsoft MVPâ€™s, or members of the PowerShell team, or one of the 50 or so other delegates who attended this awesome conference.

I felt completely out of place â€“ for about a minute â€“ it took that long before I was invited to join in. Our conference began the night before when about a dozen of us sat around a giant fire on the outside patio of the hotel. The amazing thing is that I looked around and I knew everyone there.

Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. I will admit that yesterday I talked about the easiest default to handleâ€”the case of defaulting to the local computer. Not everything is so easy, nor is everything so cut-and-dry. For example, consider a function that returns users from Active Directoryâ€¦In a very small environment it may be perfectly fine to return all of the users from the forest by default. In a company the size of Microsoft, such an approach would not be appreciated.

In other cases, performance is not the issue; but rather, the wide range of potential input values makes having a default value useless. For whatever reason, if a default value cannot be assigned, the solution is to make the default parameter mandatory.

Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. One of the highlights of TechEd 2011 in Atlanta was getting to know lots of really cool people. Daniel Cruz was the winner of the TechEd pass in the Scripting Games Beginner division. When Daniel was not doing a lab or attending a session, he stopped by the Scripting Guys booth to hang out and to talk to people as they came by the booth. It turned out that the Scripting Guys booth was a great place to hang out and to meet new people. Here is a picture of the Scripting Wife, Daniel, and me while we were hanging out at the booth.

A regional director of online security experts Norton gave the latest warning that consumers must, â€œbasically start to take security seriously on their smartphones and on tabletsâ€œ. Mallon admitted that the threat was small in â€œabsolute numbersâ€.
About 163 mobile vulnerabilities have uncovered in the past year. Compare that to 6,500 reported violations of Microsoftâ€™s Windows system and Appleâ€™s iOS.

Still, he persevered, smartphone security threats are on the up and up and homeworkers should consider themselves particularly vulnerable. But the biggest threat for, by definition, highly portable smartphones is still just being lost or stolen by opportunistic thieves from a pocket or open bag.

imageThis brilliant master piece comes from the Taiwanese smartphone vendor HTC and runs on Android Gingerbread (2.3), has the newest version of HTC Sense with dual-pane windows which works well with videos and email. However, this is a single-core tablet in this dual-core world and that could be considered as a setback if you want to ignore its awesome capabilities.

Featuring Android 2.3, 1.5GHz single-core Snapdragon, 1GB RAM, 32GB memory, 7-inch capacitive LCD at 1024Ã—600, 5MP camera, 3MP front-facing camera, phone-call-friendly 3G, 415g, HTC Flyer actually manages to fly high and can very well the best tablet choice for HTC fans. Did we also mention that it comes with 3D widgets making its entertainment quotient even higher?

Ever since Apple launched their superbly brilliant tablet PC â€” iPad , the world got its first real taste of tablets â€” and, what some might say, is an excellent summation of the breadth of quality future tablets would offer. In case, you are clueless as to what a tablet PC is â€” tablets are basically lightweight toned-down versions of laptopsÂ in every sense â€” they weigh less, and theyâ€™re lighter on features.

In other words you can think tablets as enhanced versions of modern day smartphones. The advantage they offer over laptops is an easy way to check e-mail, browse the Web, consume media, and play games â€” just like a smartphone, but with a far larger screen and more powerful hardware and features.

The results showed that users of Internet Explorer 6 have average IQ by 80 points, while those who prefer Firefox and Google Chrome average gained 100 points in tests.Â But those who opt for Opera and Camino have the highest score, with an average of 120 points.

Another conclusion of the research is the fact that those who used IE6 in 2006 had a higher IQ than the current Internet Explorer users of the program.Â In addition, the score increases as the version of Microsoftâ€™s browser is refreshed.

NASA has released a freeiPadApp, that allows its users to better understand various phenomena that occur on Earth through satellite information from the organization, the NASA ExplorerVisualization.Â The new displays video, images and stories that explain, for example, as climate change happens from the point of view of satellites.

The aim of the launch of the NASA Explorer Visualization, according to the sites Engadget and CNET, is to get information to more people, make them learn more about the planet we live and understand its history.

You may wonder how to produce a popular Facebook application. Every inventor wonders how to sell the product he or she has invented. Before you invent the product, it is important to know that there is an audience for it. Once you have identified your audience and their needs, you will find designing easy. In this article you will find suggestions on creating a Facebook application, social mediatips.

When you are coming up with ideas for your project, you need to have your audience in mind. The audience for Facebook includes users that are young to middle aged. This website is popular as it enhances the user ability to socialize and engage with friends. Popular applications meet this need. Socialization is the key to the products success.